New (for X2 atleast) Missile Question

[youtookmyname]

Been hashing out the details on a new mod for the game, and while trying to get my mits on 3dmax was curious if anyone knew if its possible to script a cluster/swarm missile. Basiaclly you for the missile and a short distance from your ship it breaks up into anywhere from 4-10 smaller, more maneuverable warheads. A possible Twist on it would be anti cap ship version, menat to cause mass damage over a wide hull area.

[Burianek]

I'll take a stab.
I don't think you can add new missiles. So here's what you could do.
Replace one of the exisiting missile types with a new 'mother' missile. All speed / manevuerability parameters are editable through modding.
Replace another of the existing missile types with a new 'child' missile.
Again it's easy to set flight characteristics of these.
When a mother is launched it starts a script (not sure if you can tie a script into this event or not)
If you can't, you'd have to tie a command into the command window called 'activate mirv warhead' or something that manually runs the script.
Once activated, script checks distance to target, and at x meters, script:
1. spawns y number of child missiles with target same as mother in some arrangement around it.
2. destroys mother missile.
You might have a problem with newly spawned children missiles sitting there for a second before they speed up, so it may not be that useful.
Also, you'll have to decomission two missile types to do it.
But it sounds doable.

[XeHonk]

you might have to write a loop to detect missile launches :]

[youtookmyname]

Seems kinda limitng not being able to create new missile types. For a moddable game, the more i learn you can do, the more it seems you cant do.

[JustHere4Coffee]

I think the problem is more that people expect to be able to rewrite the game engine...

[youtookmyname]

well i really dont expect the ability to recode the game, but certain things, I.E. ship ezuipment/weapons, shouldnt be hard coded. IN this mod i planned on making very different factions and changing the X2 gun system to Classes. Like there are 5 calsses each with 3 teirs of compatibility. Each factio has their own version and ups and downs. Now ti seems that it's not possible.

[Burianek]

as of right now, you can only change (or at least that's all anyone's figured out yet)
you can't add.
although for ship equipment (software, scanners, not weapons, shields), they added a few empty slots so you can add there.

[youtookmyname]

well thas no fun for people who really want to get ambtious with the mods, like a babylon 5 mod. Too bad since hte game being moddable gave it replayability.